Fluid operated apparatus for printing binary-coded information

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR THE PRINTING OF RECEIVED BINARY-CODED INFORMATION SYMBOLS, IN WHICH THE ENERGY REQUIRED FOR THE DECODING AND THE PRINTING OF A SYMBOL IS TRANSMITTED BY MEANS OF A FLUID MEDIA UNDER PRESSURE, COMPRISING A TYPE CARRIER ON WHICH THE SYMBOLS TO BE PRINTED ARE ARRANGED IN PREDETERMINED RELATION IN AT LEAST ONE OF TWO COORDINATE DIRECTIONS, SLIDE MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID TYPE CARRIER FOR MOVING THE LATTER TO EFFECT A SYMBOL SELECTION THEREON, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID TYPE CARRIER AND SAID SLIDE MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING MOVEMENT THEREBETWEEN, A PLURALITY OF PAIRS OF PISTONS, SUCH PAIRS BEING EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF SYMBOLS ARRANGED ON SAID TYPE CARRIER IN SUCH A COORDINATE DIRECTION, A PLURALITY OF STOPS, EACH COOPERABLE WITH ONE OF SAID PAIRS, THE RESPECTIVE PISTONS OF WHICH ARE MOVABLE IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS TOWARD THE COOPERABLE STOP, AND ARRANGED TO TRANSMIT MOVEMENT TO SAID SLIDE IN A DIRECTION TOWARD SUCH STOP, THE LATTER BEING OPERATIVE TO RESTRICT SUCH MOVEMENT OF COOPERABLE PISTONS, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING THE RESPECTIVE PAIRS OF PISTONS TO A FLUID MEDIA UNDER PRESSURE, AND DECODING ELEMENTS COOPERABLE WITH SAID LAST-MENTIONED MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY